Overview

• The unsealed six-count federal indictment targets Captain Arcelia Tidwell and officers Dayton Layne Wakefield, Robert Morgan Madison, Daniel Eugene Vickery, Richard Douglas Holtzman and Jacob Dlee Edwards.
• Charges include deprivation of rights, conspiracy against rights and obstruction of justice in connection with Mitchell’s hypothermic death and assaults on at least five other inmates.
• Prosecutors allege jailers failed to provide Mitchell with adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation and medical and mental health care before his death from hypothermia and sepsis.
• The indictment details allegations that officers used an inmate as an “enforcer,” rewarding him with outside food and false commendations for assaulting fellow detainees.
• Federal authorities anticipate further indictments against medical staff as investigations into systemic abuses at Walker County Jail continue.